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Audi Allroad Visibility problems by year

12 complaints filed with NHTSA about the Audi Allroad's visibility & wipers. Windshields, wipers, defrosters, mirrors, backup cameras and glare.

Visibility complaints by model year

YearVisibility complaintsCrashesInjuriesRecalls
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Latest Allroad visibility complaints

2013 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipersBody, doors & structure

Tl* the contact owns a 2013 audi allroad. The contact stated that the sun roof draining system was blocked. The failure allowed water to drain into the vehicle around the air bag canister for the front and rear air bags. Audi marietta (located at 1145 rottenwood dr, marietta, ga 30060, (877) 863-0749) was contacted and the vehicle was currently being diagnosed. The contact was informed that there was no recalls associated with the vehicle. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 70,000.

Filed Incident Visibility · StructureNHTSA 11151424
2004 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipersBody, doors & structure

While driving down the interstate the moon roof spontaneously exploded! It was not hit by anything, it just exploded. I have done a little research and have found that audi has had a problem in the past with faulty glass causing their moon roofs to explode and had to issued a recall for this problem. I contacted audi and requested them to replace my moon roof. They gave me the run around and then unfortunately, decided that they are unwilling to assist me with the replacement of my own moon roof because it was...

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not one of the models recalled and my car is over 10 years old so it is out of warranty. Thank god my children were not in the car to be injured by exploding glass and thank god it was 5:00 in the morning so there was no traffic around for the explosion to have caused an accident! Audi has treated this like it's not big deal, something that should be expected to happen after owning one of their cars for 10 years, and that it is my problem for having an "old" car. Shame on audi for not taking responsibility for this! *Tr

Filed Incident Visibility · StructureNHTSA 10633244
2002 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

1. Normal use has lead to the failure. 2. The failure is that the wiper blades leave a 4" - 6" wide streak across the line of vision of the driver. This occurs within a couple of weeks of replacing the blades with new blades from the dealer, which is the only place these particular style blades can be purchased. Once it starts, the failure occurs at every use until replaced by new blades. I purchased a new pair of blades two weeks ago and the driver's side has failed already. 3. I have replaced the blades with...

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new blades which only solves the problem for a very short, week or two, period of time. I have asked the dealer if there were alternate design wiper arms that could be purchased and retrofitted and was told no. The stock arms are designed to be used with "aero" style blades and seem to be the root cause of the problem. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10308343
2003 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

The windshield washer system fails routinely in audi a6 models 1998 to 2005 causing the fluid reservoir to rapidly empty leading to loss of visibility in bad weather leading to a traffic safety hazard. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10254347
2003 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Windshield wipers stop during wiper cycle. Wipers do not reset or restart for 30-45 seconds after stopping. Wipers will not start or reset if driver moves wiper selector lever during malfunction into any mode, delay, low or hi. Problem only occurs when raining. Could not duplicate effect in dry weather. Problem primarily occurs when wipers are in the delay mode. Wipers will stop at any angle on windshield when malfunction starts. Problem duration and frequency increased with time from several times a month...

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to every 60-90 seconds while wipers where activated over 12 month period. Vehicle under warranty. Dealer could not duplicate effect. During wiper malfunction, if wiper selector lever is moved to the off position while wipers are stuck in a raised/elevated position, wipers will not reset. Wipers will remain in malfunctioning position on windshield until wiper selector lever is moved to delay/lo/ or hi setting and then wiper will resume normal function after 60-90 seconds. Dealer has not taking action to correct this problem after repeated requests by owner. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10252769
2001 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Trouble occurred with both driver and passenger windows, but at different times. Passenger window was still under warranty at the time. Window would not close properly and then would spontaneously open. Attempts to close it entirely were often not successful. Motor was replaced on both windows-one under warranty, the other not. A second occurrence with driver window required another costly repair, although the cause was different. This happens also currently with rear passenger window when it is cold. I have had nothing but mechanical issues with this vehicle. *Tr

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10246460
2004 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers1 injury

While driving at approx. 45-50 Miles per hour, the sunroof of our audi quattro allroad exploded. There were no prior impacts, dings, chips, cracks etc in the sunroof. Immediately prior to explosion there was a hollow-sounding pop. The driver was showered with glass which had to be removed from arm, neck and hair. Incident occurred in altitude at temp. At or above 100 degree. *Nm

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10161179
2002 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Wiper blades not functional in wintry conditions. Blade does not remove snow and thus freezes and becomes a layer of ice. Can't see. Very dangerous. Defroster melts the snow however the oem blade isn't strong enough to remove & thus more ice. No winter blades are available as the manufacturer - audi- has redesigned the blade connection. *Jb

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10062365
2002 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

While driving in inclement weather windshield wipers will not clear off the snow on the front windshield. Dealer indicated that it was a manufacturing design flaw, and there was no solution to the problem. *Ak *la

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10057777
2003 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Windshield wipers do not have enough force to remove snow build up even if in the highest speed mode. This results in poor visibility. *Ak

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 10054064
2002 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Consumer states the windshield is distorted, dealer replaced windshield. The new windshield is of same design, audi has stated all windshields have this distortion. Please provide additional information.*Jb

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 8019267
2002 Audi AllroadVisibility & wipers

Front windshield is bent or distorted. Unable to see out of windsheild clearly. Had windshield replaced, problem reoccurred. *Ak

Filed Incident VisibilityNHTSA 8010463

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